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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] IEEE 802.11w / management frame protection

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> The current version is relatively complete for mac80211, but there are
> still couple of known missing functions and I've done only very
> limited testing so far. I was able to send and receive both CCMP and
> BIP protected deauthentication frames and based on a sniffer log, the
> frames looked correct. All this is with mac80211_hwsim and software
> crypto. It is unclear whether this can be used as-is with devices that
> use hwaccel for crypto at least before the low-level drivers and/or
> firmware have been modified to cope with the possibility of CCMP being
> used with management frames.

b43 will be able to do this for sure, it doesn't care what sort of frame
is encrypted. The question is how drivers can indicate
support/non-support I guess.

johannes

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